President & CEO
Aschwin de Wolf is one of the world’s leading cryonics researchers and writers.
He is CEO of Advanced Neural Biosciences and coauthored the first comprehensive human cryopreservation procedures manual, wrote the first medical biostasis protocol, and has edited several books and magazines about human cryopreservation.
Operations Manager
Michael Benjamin is a founding member of Biostasis Technologies and is currently the Operations Manager, Secretary and Treasurer.
He was previously a Research Associate at Advanced Neural Biosciences, joining the company in April of 2019. He worked on a comprehensive meta-analysis of all Alcor patient cases, an endeavor whose goal is to develop, experimentally validate, and refine a quantitative cryopreservation evaluation methodology.
Michael brings with him 20 years of experience in physics, engineering and mathematics having worked at places such as NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Brookhaven National Labs and Lockheed Martin.
Director of Clinical Services
Aaron Mindel became a Paramedic in 2008 and has excelled in prehospital emergency medicine for over 14 years, treating and transporting critically ill patients, performing advanced life support procedures, and ensuring on-scene safety throughout the NYC 911 Emergency Medical System.
He has deployed to Iraq and Ukraine as a volunteer medic providing frontline medical care to civilians and noncombatants on disaster relief/humanitarian aid missions. He holds a BA in Media Studies from CUNY Hunter College and is currently certified to practice in CT, FL, NY & PA. He is thrilled to bring his experience to cryonics as Biostasis Technologies Director of Clinical Services.
Director of Communications
Max More, Ph.D. is an internationally acclaimed strategic philosopher widely recognized for his thinking on the philosophical and cultural implications of emerging technologies. He served as President and CEO of the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, the world’s leading cryonics organization, from 2011-2020 and as Alcor’s Ambassador and President Emeritus from 2020 to January 2023. Max has been a consistent advocate of life extension since the 1980s.
Over the past three decades, Max has been concerned that our escalating technological capabilities are racing far ahead of our standard ways of thinking about future possibilities. Through a highly interdisciplinary approach drawing on philosophy, economics, cognitive and social psychology, and management theory, Max developed a distinctive approach known as the “Proactionary Principle”—a tool for making smarter decisions about advanced technologies by minimizing the dangers of progress and maximizing the benefits.
Max has a degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from St. Anne’s College, Oxford University (1984-87). He was awarded a Dean’s Fellowship in Philosophy in 1987 by the University of Southern California and received his PhD in Philosophy from USC in 1995.
